Kathy Troccoli

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Kathleen Colleen Troccoli (born June 28, 1958) is a contemporary Christian singer, author, and speaker. <p>Born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 24, 1958, Miss Troccoli moved at age three and was raised in the East Islip community in Long Island, and graduated from East Islip High School, where as a senior, fellow classmates included fellow CCM artist Margaret Becker (a junior) and three-sport star Norman Esiason, Jr, a freshman. At 15, she lost her father to colon cancer. She also lost her mother to breast cancer in 1991, shortly before her album, Pure Attraction, hit the shelves with her number one mainstream hit, "Everything Changes". Before this album came out, she had taken a five year break from the music world to do some "soul searching" and deal with her bulimia. <p>After graduation, she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a year, studying jazz, before returning home to community college in the Long Island region. While working a job to pay the college bill, she...